--- title: Ford Refutes Donald Trump Claims on Mexico Plant description: Donald Trump is taking credit for stopping Ford from moving an auto plant to Mexico, but the car giant has refuted Trump's claim canonical: https://time.com/4087058/donald-trump-ford/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-26T15:57:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T23:55:21.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Ford Refutes Donald Trump's Claims on Mexico Plant og:description: Trump says he stopped Ford from going to Mexico og:url: https://time.com/4087058/donald-trump-ford/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ford Refutes Donald Trump's Claims on Mexico Plant twitter:description: Trump says he stopped Ford from going to Mexico twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ford Refutes Donald Trump's Claims on Mexico Plant > Sponsored content. 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Donald Trump's Most Ridiculous Quotes_ by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Updated: Dec 13, 2023 11:55 PM UTCPublished: Oct 26, 2015 3:57 PM UTC by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Updated: Dec 13, 2023 11:55 PM UTCPublished: Oct 26, 2015 3:57 PM UTC Donald Trump is taking credit for stopping Ford from moving an auto plant to Mexico, but the car giant on Monday refuted Trump’s claim and said it is proceeding with its plans. The presidential candidate said in tweets on Sunday that his constant criticism of Ford on the campaign trail had pushed the company to halt plans for a $2.5 billion factory in Mexico and stay in Ohio. His rivals, Trump said, would not have been able to accomplish the same. But Ford is moving forward with its engine and transmission plant in Mexico, the company said, and the decision to produce pickup trucks in the United States long predates the presidential race. “Ford has not spoken with Mr. Trump, nor have we made any changes to our plans,” Ford said. “We decided to move the F-650 and F-750 medium-duty trucks to Ohio Assembly in 2011, long before any candidates announced their intention to run for U.S. president.” > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/658381595049611265) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/658382301324251136) A spokeswoman for Trump said that he is focused on “bringing jobs back to the United States” instead of sending them overseas. “Mr. Trump was merely using the story of the Ford factory now located in Ohio to reinforce the importance of this issue he discusses often,” she said. The billionaire real estate mogul, who has not appeared to suffer in the past for making misleading statements, is leading in national polls, though recent surveys show retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson overtaking him in Iowa. ## Transcript Rosie O'Donnell's disgusting, I mean both inside and out. You take a look at her, she's a slob. She talks like a truck driver. So he could have been born in Kenya and gone over to the United States. And everybody wants to be a US citizen. And his grandparents put an ad in saying he was born in the United States. He didn't kill Bin Laden. He gets so much credit for that. Ok excuse me. He had the guts to make that decision. And the genius. Excuse me. Guts. First of all Vince, your grapefruits are no match for my Trump Towers. They're bringing drugs They're bringing crime, they're rapist, and some I assume are good people, and I love the Mexican people. I've had thousands of Mexicans working for me. I sell apartments for millions of dollars to people from Mexico. They love me, they love me. [ CROSSTALK ]. He's a war hero cuz he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, okay? I hate to tell you this. And I see your Senator. What a stiff? What a Stiff? Lindsay Graham. I'm not using the lobbyists, I'm not using donors. I don't care. I'm really rich. 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